"The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section."

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Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”

Kenneth Rexroth

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“A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.”
“People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.”
“If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.”
“You won't go the hell for smoking, you'll just smell like you've been there.”
“God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.”
“Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.”
“Design is too important to be left to designers.”

Source : "Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage". Book by Adam Richardson, p. 184, February 8, 2010.
“The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.”

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